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Bridging Distances

Do you interact with people who work in different locations? Do you have to rely on virtual team tools to communicate and collaborate with them? Do you want to reach common objectives despite the geographical distance?

Our blended-learning course helps you to overcome these challenges in 3 steps:

Introduce yourself to the other course participants and reflect on how this experience is different from a face-to-face meeting. Get familiar with recent research and understand how you can create a collegial working environment without physical proximity.

This learning step helps you to:

Introduce yourself online and define your role

Choose the right communication tools

Establish a common information flow and decision making process

Step 2: Get individual online coaching

Look back and reflect upon your personal experience with a dedicated facilitator, who helps you to elaborate adapted solutions for your specific needs. Discuss about communication, project coordination, leadership or management issues that are characteristic for your own working environment.

This learning step helps you to:

Gauge your interlocutor’s well-being and state of mind, online

Announce difficult messages in a bilateral setting

Explore means to compensate for the absence of physical proximity

Find answers for your personal challenges

Step 3: Exchange with other course participants

During a workshop at cinfo in Bienne, reflect upon your ability to communicate with, to inspire and to guide your partners who are located in a different geographical and cultural context, experiment with new tools and technologies (Webex, Zoom, etc.), discuss and review study cases from the field and exchange good practices which help you to clarify your role and to refine your competencies while interacting with your partners.